Monday, January 11LG: Analyze writing to improve skills with claims, evidence, and interpretation.

Introduce Vocab. Unit 1. (Complete book exercises and have questions ready about words by Wednesday.); demonstrate punctuation key and format of the book; review online access; read the passage at the beginning of the unit; and review etymology and connotations of words.

HOMEWORK: Explore the Poetry Out Loud videos more in depth. Choose two poems from the www.poetryoutloud.org website. Print poems and bring to class this Thursday. Finish fleshing out the initial reflection paragraph for "Making the Grade." Do the synonyms and antonyms exercise in Unit 1 Level E vocabulary workbook.

Wednesday, January 13LG: Make and support a claim that demonstrates understanding of figurative language and meaning.

Vocabulary Unit 1: Exploring connotation and denotation

Create foldables for parts of speech review; ​Assess sentence modeling. *Differentiation: students are grouped homogeneously based on phrases pre-test

Poetry Analysis: “How to Read Poetry” handout

Imagery Lesson: Groups will analyze passages for different types of imagery.

Students will work in pairs to analyze the one of the following poems according to “How to Read Poetry.”